Player Watch #22 Nick Blakey: 2024 All Australian

[Kennedy Parker]

Nick Blakey
Nick Blakey

22

Nick Blakey

Age

24

Ht

196cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.9

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.4

4star

MG

189.1

3star

D

8.1

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

2.1

2star

T

2.6

4star

MG

189.1

3star

D

7.2

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

2.0

2star

M

1.2

2star

T

1.2

3star

is a prodigious talent with a laser-sharp left boot, an outstanding overhead ability and searing pace. The QBE Sydney Swans Academy product booted 21 goals in 19 games in a brilliant debut season en route to winning the club’s 2019 Rising Star award, and while he added a lively element to the forward line last year, he’s likely to play on a wing or in the midfield in 2020. Nick is the son of former Fitzroy and North Melbourne champion John Blakey, who’s had a variety of roles on the Swans’ coaching panel since 2006.

Nick Blakey

22

Nick Blakey

Age

24

Ht

196cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.9

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.4

4star

MG

189.1

3star

D

8.1

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

2.1

2star

T

2.6

4star

MG

189.1

3star

D

7.2

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

2.0

2star

M

1.2

2star

T

1.2

3star

DOB: 27 February 2000
DEBUT: 2019
DRAFT: #10, 2018 National Draft
RECRUITED FROM: University Of NSW-Eastern Suburbs (NSW)

Nick Blakey | AFL

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[GotTheGoodes]

Damn it!!

 

[swansfan51]

#lolnorf

 

[ScrewInStuds]

You bypassed the filter

There is no spoon.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

#loInorf would fit better.

Not as subtle but still funny. Big Footy Mods would try to ban it.

When jpk retires, Nick could take his dad's old number.

 

[sataris]

#lolNorf
#loInorf

 

[replicant]

Why stop at pi to 2 decimal places ? Cover the entire jumper.

To avoid recurring fractions it might be good to use mixed fractions rather than decimals, eg, 33 1/3 (suitable for a long playing career). We could use imaginary numbers for over-hyped debutants (eg, i37 for a Goodes wannabe) and negative numbers for spuds. Perhaps Swans could elect to use only Prime numbers or really large numbers in scientific notation. Why stop at Pi ? We could use other constants too. Grundy could just have a huge G on his jumper to indicate the universal gravitational constant 6.67 x 10-11 (sorry no superscript)

I also think Aliir would look good in Zero, an especially cool number to have or the coolest of all -273 (degC), (absolute zero, 0 degK, everything in the universe frozen)

Finally, think how all this may help to develop more interest in Maths and Physics among young footy fans. Imagine the scene on the tram on the way home from a game.

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"Dad, how come Blakey is now wearing the number 22/7 ? And wouldn't it be better as a decimal ?"

"Well son, it's a close approximation to Pi and is part of the new Swans jumper number policy to get fans into maths, and it would be impossible to fit on his jumper if it were written in decimal"

"Huh, why's that ?"

"Because it's a recurring fraction. It would stretch to infinity"

"How big is infinity Dad ?"

"Infinity is the number of touches Mitchell would have needed in the NEAFL to get a senior game from Horse, according to some BF posters"

"But Dad, that's completely irrational"

"Try telling some BF fans. No son, 22/7 is perfectly rational as it recurrs. Irrational numbers neither terminate nor recurr"

"Like pi ?"

"Of course. Everyone likes pies, especially at the footy. What's not to like about a chopped rat in boiling hot gravy and covered in sauce ? A cold beer in one hand as you juggle the overheated pie half still in its bag in the other, eyes fixated on the game in front of you don't notice the vulnerable young girl sitting below you with her dad. You raise the pie carefully to your face, peel back your lips like a horse grasping for a carrot and take a tentative first bite, scalding your mouth and causing the pie to fall into your beer even as a burning lava of gravy escapes and drops squarely into your crotch. You stand up screaming and slosh pie flavoured beer down the back of the girl in front but just then Buddy marks inside 50 and the whole crowd roars as one, drowning her cries. Her screams go ignored as her dad fixates on Buddy lining up for his shot. You grab this chance to sneak away and find a spare seat in GA."

"No, I meant like Pi"

"Oh sorry, yes, Pi's a great example of an irrational number"

"Gee Dad. I love Maths almost as much as I love footy"

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Sorry, am I off topic on this ? I tried to mention Blakey.

OK. I'll see myself out.

If only jumper numbers meant something, Goodes could have played forever because he'd always be in his prime.

 

[MarkP]

Someone should definitely run out with 9.8%

 

[Swansujelly]

Someone should definitely run out with 9.8%

everyone would have to wear it tho..

 

[Syd]

Someone should definitely run out with 9.8%

everyone would have to wear it tho..

Wouldn’t you add 9.8% to every number?

 

[Swansujelly]

Wouldn’t you add 9.8% to every number?

no, only buddy.

 

[magic.merkin]

no, only buddy.

No silly, buddy got everyone's 9.8%. He drove around with Horse to all the players houses, knocked on the door, put out his cap and got himself paid.

 

[Swansujelly]

No silly, buddy got everyone's 9.8%. He drove around with Horse to all the players houses, knocked on the door, put out his cap and got himself paid.

I stand corrected.

 

[Parkerman]

What about 7? As in Blakey's 7.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

What about 7? As in Blakey's 7.

An outstanding suggestion.

 

[bedford]

Blakey has signed for an extra 2 years , good stuff.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Blakey has signed for an extra 2 years , good stuff.

several pimples on the bottom of #lol,came.Ninf just exploded. Not attractive and a nasty public health problem.

 

[miggs]

Blakey has signed for an extra 2 years , good stuff.

Good

 

[Ticky009]

Good

Great to see you out and about on day release miggs

 

[miggs]

Great to see you out and about on day release miggs

hehe xoxo

 

[The King!]

must be some ****en good training to get a contract extension

 

[replicant]

must be some ****en good training to get a contract extension

It's just a basic protection against North and their "war chest". It's great. We get some security, and North can move on from Blakey and find other players to reject them.

 

[caesar88]

must be some ****en good training to get a contract extension

You can bet Collingwood did not draft Nathan Freeman with the view that it would be OK if he left after two years. You don't draft a player unless you plan to have them for at least the first three or four years of their career. Blakey is probably going to be good enough that he'll start attracting attention from other clubs, so we've simply locked him down to avoid a Freeman situation. It's actually quite a logical thing to do and I'm surprised it's not more common with first and even second round draft picks. If the recruiting staff picked a player that high in the draft, but didn't want, hope and expect them to be at your club in four years time, they should be sacked on the spot.

 

[The King!]

You can bet Collingwood did not draft Nathan Freeman with the view that it would be OK if he left after two years. You don't draft a player unless you plan to have them for at least the first three or four years of their career. Blakey is probably going to be good enough that he'll start attracting attention from other clubs, so we've simply locked him down to avoid a Freeman situation. It's actually quite a logical thing to do and I'm surprised it's not more common with first and even second round draft picks. If the recruiting staff picked a player that high in the draft, but didn't want, hope and expect them to be at your club in four years time, they should be sacked on the spot.

It can backfire

Time will tell just don’t need bambi take 2

 

[caesar88]

It can backfire

Time will tell just don’t need bambi take 2

Blakey will be 22 years old when his current contract runs out. That's still 5 years off from where Bambi currently is. Even if Blakey was to suffer that same fate, we're nearly a decade away from dealing with that. I think it's only a good thing that he can get through his development years knowing he's safe and secure as a Swan.

 

[The King!]

Blakey will be 22 years old when his current contract runs out. That's still 5 years off from where Bambi currently is. Even if Blakey was to suffer that same fate, we're nearly a decade away from dealing with that. I think it's only a good thing that he can get through his development years knowing he's safe and secure as a Swan.

Good points, lot of pressure , but at the very least he pissed norf off so he gave us something already